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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

The first few years I had apricots here we had harsh winters and even one 
cold winter where we had zero snow until March 10th which they all came thru 
just fine.  Now the past few years everything has been dying back and just 
plain dying.  We have had two brutal falls in a row where we have moved from 
summer to winter pretty much overnight: from growing and hot to freezing by 
double digits and snow that stayed.

I have lost multiple Cowley, Scout, Westcot and Morden 604's.  But this year, 
I have a Cowley that had/has died back quite a bit break out in blossom on a 
few pathetic branches. "Course its almost the only apricot I have left in my 
orchard and the mice ate all the apricot seedlings I have in my 
seedling/graft beds....


Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Sun, 5/22/11, Jim Fruth <jimfruth@charter.net> wrote:

> From: Jim Fruth <jimfruth@charter.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Frost-resisting apricots grown in Siberia?
> To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 1:33 PM
>     Are any of these
> available here in the States?
> 
>     I have grown Debbies Gold, M-609(?), Brookcot
> and Wescot 
> successfully........................until they bear
> fruit.  Then they die 
> suddenly.  So I would really love to grow an apricot
> that bears ripe fruit.
> 
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Fruit Farm
> 4002 Davis Street
> Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
> 1-218-831-7018 (My Cell) 
> 
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